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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rick Stachowski, post: 7305003, member: 42872&quot;]Here&#039;s some info on hubs &amp; die making .</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Step One: Die Making</b></font></p><p>After a coin or medal design is selected and a digital sculpt finalized as described in <a href="https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-made-design-and-selection-process" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-made-design-and-selection-process" rel="nofollow">part one of this series</a>, die making begins the production process.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the die making process, the Mint makes several generations of hubs and dies. <b>Hubs</b> show a positive image the way the artist created it. <b>Dies</b> are like a photo negative, displaying the design in reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>A computer-controlled milling machine cuts the design into the end of a steel cylinder to make the master hub. The master hub is used to make master dies. To make a master die, a press pushes the master hub into another steel cylinder with a cone-shaped end to transfer the image. The master dies make the working hubs. Working hubs then make the working dies that actually strike the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Philadelphia Mint makes master hubs and dies for all the coins and medals the U.S. Mint produces. The Denver Mint receives master dies from Philadelphia to produce its own working hubs and dies. Both Denver and Philadelphia make working dies for the San Francisco and West Point Mint facilities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s where the info came from .</p><p>For all you fact checkers .</p><p><a href="https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-made-coin-production-terminology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-made-coin-production-terminology" rel="nofollow">https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-made-coin-production-terminology</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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